Quotes with half-way

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  • Alanis Morissette I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Source: Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Junot Diaz I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
    Adela Florence Nicolson
    English poet
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  • Dorothy Parker I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Orson Welles I started at the top and worked my way down.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • H. Youngman I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bryan Adams I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Lewis Carroll I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Adam Michnik I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Adam Jones I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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